American Medical News, the biweekly newspaper founded by the American Medical Association in 1958, will cease publication after its last edition Sept. 9. The paper employs about 20 people and has lost money in each of the past 10 years, the Chicago Tribune reports.
Tom Easley, senior vice president and publisher of periodic publications at the AMA, told Peter Frost of the Tribune that the paper's losses have been "significant" during the past two years, and that 2014 was projected to be even worse. The paper has a print circulation of 208,000, and 90 percent of its recipients were physicians. (Disclosure: A few years ago, I spent two years or so editing and producing a radio version of American Medical News for XM radio.)
The AMA told the Tribune it is considering continuing some online news features, including AMA Morning Rounds and AMA Wire, but if they continue they will likely use content from other sites.
The employees' last day will be Aug. 28.
-Paul Raeburn
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